photocopy
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They have to rely on patients to recount their medical histories or wait hours or even days for another clinician to send a DVD, a fax — or a photocopy.
From MarketWatch ● May 4, 2026
Down the sidewalk, I mailed packages for our boys at the pack-and-ship shop, and stopped to photocopy teaching materials for my weekly state-prison volunteering gig.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 6, 2026
Her Ylfa is a glamorous foodie — herself a photocopy of Tilda Swinton’s meat-loving tycoon in “Okja.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 7, 2025
Predock had a photocopy of the bill in his pocket — always ready to unfold it and strike up a conversation about the importance of Desmond and the museum project.
From Seattle Times ● Mar. 5, 2024
The newspaper article is in my scrapbook now, along with a photocopy of the check from Mr. Nagahachi.
From "The Young Man and the Sea" by Rodman Philbrick
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She includes photocopies of typewritten manuscript pages, heavy with margin notes and marked-through lines.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 29, 2026
A simple way to imagine this is like making two photocopies of a document but accidentally placing both copies into the same folder instead of separating them.
From Science Daily ● May 25, 2026
"They can't even afford to make photocopies, never mind plane tickets and lodgings," said lawyer Valeria Carreras, who represents 34 families of victims.
From Barron's ● Mar. 3, 2026
They often have to submit copies of their diplomas, typically as photocopies by mail.
From BBC ● Mar. 7, 2024
Before Lurz left to make photocopies, with the bald man close behind, he handed me a stack of photos and documents to look at while he was gone.
From "The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks" by Rebecca Skloot
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The bank photocopied the check so I read it.
From MarketWatch ● Apr. 27, 2026
The tendrils of the tightly strung material connect, both physically and metaphorically, the wartime experiences documented in the photocopied pages scattered about, but they also bring to mind out-of-control cell growth and cancerous disease.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 28, 2025
In fact he was so worried about the "bizarre" prescriptions he was being handed by patients he photocopied 250 of the most suspicious.
From BBC ● Feb. 23, 2025
She had photocopied the form four times, clipped everything together and tucked it into a large FedEx envelope, along with referrals, letters and a chronology of her husband’s sickness.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 10, 2024
The next morning, a man came to our door with a photocopied letter.
From "Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World" by Malala Yousafzai
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Hunkered over a Xerox machine at an ad agency above a flower shop on Melrose Avenue, Daniel Ellsberg began the laborious process of photocopying the smuggled documents that he hoped would end the Vietnam War.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 14, 2024
After the Catholic Archdiocese of Chicago was found guilty in 1984 of illegally photocopying the music of a religious composer, the U.S.
From Seattle Times ● Apr. 26, 2024
"It was as if someone had followed me around for a year, stealing my jokes, copying my mannerisms, photocopying my world-weary yet witty view of life…" he wrote.
From BBC ● Oct. 29, 2023
During that battle, one of the brawlers is clad à la Uma Thurman in a white button-down, black slacks and black bangs — Manzoor’s bring-it-on taunt to audiences who might say she’s photocopying Quentin Tarantino.
From New York Times ● Apr. 27, 2023
I’d done some research on multiple sclerosis in the Princeton library, photocopying medical journal articles to send to my parents.
From "Becoming" by Michelle Obama
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